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Students’ Understanding of Diagrams for Solving Word Problems
Content type: Journal Article
A visual representation, such as a diagram, can be a powerful strategy for solving mathematical word problems. However, using a representation to solve mathematical word problems is not as simple as it seems! Many students with learning disabilities...
Teaching Academic Vocabulary to Adolescents With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Knowing the meaning of academic vocabulary words helps adolescents understand content-area text and improves their academic achievement. To demonstrate deep understanding of words, students reading below grade level and students with learning disabilities...
Teaching Handwriting to Elementary Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Handwriting is an important skill for students to acquire in elementary school. Determining and delivering appropriate handwriting interventions to students with learning disabilities can be complicated. Teachers must juggle handwriting with other...
Graphic Organizers for Secondary Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Research suggests students with learning disabilities often have trouble connecting new and prior knowledge, distinguishing essential and nonessential information, and applying comprehension strategies (Dicecco & Gleason, 2002; Vaughn & Edmonds, 2006)...
Improving Access to Elementary School Social Studies Instruction
Content type: Journal Article
Social studies instruction in upper elementary school (Grades 3-5) is important for building foundational content knowledge to equip students for the secondary school curriculum. Due to numerous school initiatives and demands on the time of teachers...
Blending Wheels
Content type: Journal Article
Children with learning disabilities typically struggle with learning to read, particularly with developing phonemic blending skills. Finding ways to provide sufficient decoding practice is an ongoing challenge for special educators. Blending wheels are...
Using Read-Alouds to Help Struggling Readers Access and Comprehend Complex, Informational Text
Content type: Journal Article
Fascinating and educationally important words and worlds are found in informational text, but informational text is often extremely challenging for students—those who struggle with reading or have a learning disability—to access, because of their limited...
Using Explicit and Systematic Instruction to Support Working Memory
Content type: Journal Article
Differences in working memory capacity have important implications for learning new skills and completing instructional activities. Students with learning disabilities are particularly vulnerable to contending with compromised working memory while learning...
Contextualizing Instruction for English Language Learners With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
With the increase in the number of English language learners in today’s classrooms, teachers are faced with the task of delivering evidence-based instructional strategies to very diverse groups in their classrooms. The challenges of teaching children with...
Helping Students With Mathematics Difficulties Understand Ratios and Proportions
Content type: Journal Article
Ratios and proportions are foundational to student understanding across multiple topics in mathematics such as slope, constant rate of change, and similar figures, which are all fundamental to algebraic concepts and skills. The CCSS-M includes concepts and...